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Transmission by Joy Division, Spiritwalker by The Cult spring to my total beginner mind

In The Meadow - All About Eve Are Friends Electric - Tubeway Army Celebrate - Fields Of The Nephilim

Born To Be Wild (any version) ...lifelong rock fan but have hated that from the very first time I heard it! Red Red Wine, UB40... intensely annoying whine that unfortunately was just the sign of things to come Saturday Night, Whigfield...the most braindead piece of moronic garbage that has ever assaulted my eardrums (Dis)honourable mentions for Imagine, Ride On Time, and 99% of anything that made the top 10 this century...☺)

Could probably pick a different 10 every day but these would always be in there: Dreamtime - The Cult Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol Replicas - Tubeway Army Stained Class - Judas Priest All About Eve self titled debut

Lol I'm a few years older but just missed JD, my school class was very much rock/metal, no problem there but I was the only Status Quo fan and got laughed at for having their name down one strap of my rucksack and OMD's on the other...honestly did not get the connection between JD and New Order for quite some time either... :-0

Again not a bass album as such but Hooky's work on " Closer" certainly had some effect on me...I actually had that before "Unknown Pleasures" ( and, strangely, some time before I ever heard LWTUA or Transmission as well...), knew I was hearing something special even then

I think Eldritch just grabs a couple of handy musos whenever he needs a bit more towards his legal bills lol... saw them about 2001, utterly soulless

Listened to the middle bit of this show actually, some good some crud... FWIW my favourite since the first time I heard it is Glenn Tipton's "Beyond The Realms Of Death", seems to fit the tone and subject matter of the song beautifully rather than just being chucked in for the sake of it

Think maybe I need to start acquainting myself with their post Fish output...

Wanted to make noises like Peter Hook and Craig Adams, just to see if I could. Still can't .

Right at this moment "Things That Dreams Are Made Of" by the Human League...in a pub in Chapel St Leonards ..having already been treated to Talking Heads and the Stones, while a band is setting up a few feet away and I'm almost tempted to peek in the guitar cases they've left on the next table lol

I used to spend Saturday afternoons in a certain Birmingham rock pub watching the scores, would often chat to a friendly guy I'd see in there about various things (but not usually music)...after about three years I found out he is the drummer in GBH...and we share a surname...

Lol not quite... it's Mike Visceglia, having just come off stage after Suzanne Vega's return to Brum on the extended "Solitude Standing" tour. Unfortunately a serious mismatch between artist and venue, the only gig I ever smuggled a camera into lol. The mate I went with (who took that pic) was an amateur bassist at the time and Mr V was very happy to spend a few minutes chatting.... I also met Ms Vega herself after the earlier Birmingham gig at the Odeon, when I just totally lost my tongue and stuck my programme and ticket under her nose to sign and all but ran off!

Afraid I had to google him but not him lol

Possibly more in the remit of another thread but couldn't find it lol... guess who is the spotty oik in line for an autograph and a bonus point for the autographer (NEC car park 1987 ☺)

Some decades ago I saw the Sugarcubes in Brum, support band were fellow Icelanders who performed entirely in their native language as I seem to recall. Impressed me enough at the time to buy their album from the merch stall on the way out, I know I still have it somewhere lol

Helps listen to music rather than make it but I still have somewhere a Walkman-type cassette/radio which is at least 31 years old, sure it still works

Tony Pettitt. 'nuff said.

"How can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team..." Can't stand Billy Bragg but must admit that is one of the great lines of our time

Seem to be a handful I often pull off the shelf... The Cult "Dreamtime" Joy Division "Closer" All About Eve debut album Fields Of The Nephilim "The Nephilim" (specifically side 2 for those who can remember when a disc had tunes on both sides :-) )

Peter Hook and Steve Morris, maybe not everyone's cup of Earl Grey but did it for me

Quo's "Rockin. All Over The World" always sounds far better to me than CCR's original but not sure how many might agree lol...in terms of "making" the original I'd say " In The Army Now" which I only discovered was a cover about two years ago! And although the band themselves might disown it now, All About Eve's take on Cliff's "Devil Woman" is just great. Then of course there are the This Mortal Coil albums...

Was a bit sad that by the time I found out about their farewell tour the Brum gig had already sold out

IIRC Iron Maiden and Fields Of The Nephilim both released singles called "Moonchild" in 1988

"Heroes' End" by Judas Priest - iirc Elvis and Janis Joplin?